This week, Mrs Lloyd’s maths group have been learning about greater than and less than. We have looked at the symbols and talked about how they could represent a crocodiles mouth as the open mouth would face towards the biggest number. The children also know that if the numbers are the same an equals sign would be used. Here are some photos of the children working hard. Well done everyone!
P1a were shocked this morning to find that Eco Ted had taken himself off on a pirate adventure! This morning the children found a message in a bottle inside our classroom. When we opened it up we found a letter from Eco Ted and we discovered that he had disappeared. He has sneaked aboard a pirate ship and he wanted the children to write back to tell him what he needs to do in order to act like a pirate. The quality of the writing that the children produced this morning was fantastic and I’m sure when we put these messages in a bottle they will really help Eco Ted to fit in onboard the pirate ship. The children are really hoping that he will return tomorrow so that someone can take him home for the weekend. We’ll keep you posted!!
On Tuesday the 26th of May, P2 and P2/3 went on school trip to Edinburgh zoo. We saw pandas, penguins, monkeys, rhinos, meerkats and an armadillo.
We had a picnic in the park and it was sunny.
A lady from the zoo taught us all about the different animal groups.
Did you know there are five animal groups?
We liked the trip because it was fun!
“My favourite animal was the lions” Alisha
“My favourite part was the dinosaurs” Mackenzie
“My favourite animal was the snake” Kayla
We had a fab day at the zoo !!!
This week the children loved reading our stories The Short-Sighted Giraffe and Giraffes Can’t Dance. We loved making our own peg giraffes too!!!
Some of our children have started writing very grown up reports on a subject they choose. Mrs Horne is really looking forward to reading these when they are finished. We have also started to look at the different ways animals can be sorted into groups. We learned about fish, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. We are really looking forward to our zoo visit where we will learn more about animals from these groups. Some of the boys and girls have been learning that when two lines meet they form an angle. They have had fun trying to find right angles all around us. Miss Hao came in and helped us to remember the numbers 1- 10 in Mandarin and we even learnt a song in Mandarin.
Brooke, Laura, Darcy, Iain and Keigan had fun singing the song with Miss Hao, while Katie liked dancing to it. Louise liked learning to count from 1- 10 in Chinese.
Zoe and Carlos enjoyed the activity to group animals.
Morgan and Erin had fun writing their reports.
P2 have been busy preparing for our trip to the zoo !!!
We are so excited !!!
P2 have been working on identifing different animal groups e.g. mammals, fish etc
We sorted lots of different pictures of animals and talked about how they were different!
Then, we did some research into these different animal groups. We took notes about the key features of animals from these groups.
Have a look at what we have been doing this week … . . . .
Last week in P1, we were learning about weight. We were sorting items into light and heavy and were using balance scales to find out which items were heavier, lighter and which ones were the same. Here are some photos of the children in action!
This week seems to have flown by -well people say time flies when you’re having fun!
On Wednesday we had the opportunity to visit Bibleworld at the Lanthorn. It was an extremely interesting way to learn about Christianity and the Bible. We all wanted to stay a LOT longer!!
Primary 2/3 are very excited because on the 26th May, they are going to visit Edinburgh Zoo with Primary 2 to help them learn more about their topic, ‘Living and non-living things.’
For our topic, had to sort some pictures in to categories, but Mrs Horne didn’t tell us what these were. After a while we worked out it was living and non-living things. Then the next day we spent some time outside photographing examples of living and non-living things.
The planter boxes have flowers in them – these are living things.
We have art work around the school to make the playground more interesting – these are non-living things.
Some children have been learning how to write a report and they are going to be writing their own report next week.
Last week we planted some seeds to grow for our class planters, and this week many of them have started to show tiny green shoots. We have also worked some more on our planters and hope to have them ready to go on show soon.
We all think it is great to see Ms Barr starting back at Bankton and we had great fun in her lessons this week.
This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and made our own caterpillars to take home!
